Twenty people, including five children, have been killed by big cats in the United States in the last 21 years, according to figures kept by Big Cat Rescue, a non-profit cat sanctuary in Tampa, Florida.

Just saw Jack Hannah talk about this. He claims the woman was known to be "fearless" of these animals. Which I suppose is a good thing, but that alone is a potentially dangerous attitude, She also knew the rules which forbade her to enter the cage without at least two other employees and she did it anyway. What Jack also revealed was that she was there in the park with her boyfriend. They were unsupervised. Against known protocols she got the key to the enclosure and entered it alone, either in a stupid fit of bravado or on the dare or encouragement of her equally stupid boyfriend. Result? NEWS!!

rezaxis:Just saw Jack Hannah talk about this. He claims the woman was known to be "fearless" of these animals. Which I suppose is a good thing, but that alone is a potentially dangerous attitude, She also knew the rules which forbade her to enter the cage without at least two other employees and she did it anyway. What Jack also revealed was that she was there in the park with her boyfriend. They were unsupervised. Against known protocols she got the key to the enclosure and entered it alone, either in a stupid fit of bravado or on the dare or encouragement of her equally stupid boyfriend. Result? NEWS!!

Zeb Hesselgresser:Twenty people, including five children, have been killed by big cats in the United States in the last 21 years, according to figures kept by Big Cat Rescue, a non-profit cat sanctuary in Tampa, Florida.

clearly . . .

And it took 17 comments for Big Cat Rescue to get a mention on this thread, and it appeared as copypasta from somewhere else.

I guess that means that their cyber-warriors are asleep at the wheel this morning, as they generally are all over ever big cat related discussion like the proverbial stink on shiat. Anyone in the wild cat care community will tell you that BCR is the über-troll of the exotic animal community. They take everything PeTA does, and do it better. (and I don't mean that in a good way)

Woah!I used to work up in the mountains not far from where this place is. It's way up in the Sequoias near Kings Canyon National Park, and while it's about an hour and a half drive to the nearest big town, it's about 15 minutes from the summer camp where I used to work!

RootBoy42:Woah!I used to work up in the mountains not far from where this place is. It's way up in the Sequoias near Kings Canyon National Park, and while it's about an hour and a half drive to the nearest big town, it's about 15 minutes from the summer camp where I used to work!